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Lafayette County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
17historic places
—earliest paper
1836formed
55,813pop. 2020
65cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1968; 4 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Oxford, Abbeville, College Hill.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Mississippi is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Lafayette titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Abbeville Colored SchoolAbbevilleBuilding2021
Ammadelle NHLOxfordBuilding1974
Avent Acres Neighborhood Historic DistrictOxfordDistrict2020
Barnard ObservatoryOxfordBuilding1978
College ChurchCollege HillBuilding1979
Faulkner, William, House NHLOxfordBuilding1968
Hopewell Presbyterian ChurchOxfordBuilding1999
Isom PlaceOxfordBuilding1980
Lafayette County CourthouseOxfordBuilding1977
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, House NHLOxfordBuilding1975
Lyceum-The Circle Historic District NHLOxfordDistrict2008
North Lamar Historic DistrictOxfordDistrict2007
Oxford Courthouse Square Historic DistrictOxfordDistrict1980
Sand Spring Presbyterian ChurchWater ValleyBuilding1993
South Lamar Historic DistrictOxfordDistrict2009
St. Peter's Episcopal ChurchOxfordBuilding1975
Young, George Wright, HouseOxfordBuilding2007

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lafayette was formed in 1836 (1836-03-01) from Monroe.

LAFAYETTE created from MONROE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lafayette County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

56k31k6,5311840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
6,53116,12521,67122,11019,24321,25722,79821,35531,03038,74455,813

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

65 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 65 of 65 listed
NameLatLon
Abbeville Cemetery34.51649-89.50258
Bluff Springs Cemetery34.3601-89.31785
Bowles Cemetery34.29927-89.4898
Browning Cemetery34.25482-89.64591
Buford Cemetery34.4601-89.61647
Camp Ground Cemetery34.20649-89.64175
Cedar Grove Cemetery34.45565-89.47174
Church Grove Cemetery34.2976-89.54285
Clear Creek Cemetery34.34899-89.65897
College Hill Cemetery34.42288-89.57036
Confederate Cemetery34.36093-89.53897
Crocker Cemetery34.17399-89.43396
Cypress Cemetery34.36565-89.28257
Elijah Cemetery34.42399-89.66202
Free Springs Cemetery34.5251-89.65175
Fulmer Cemetery34.51065-89.69008
Harmontown Cemetery34.53954-89.64675
Hipp CemeteryNoneNone
Holt Cemetery34.21899-89.53035
Jefferson Cemetery34.41538-89.3559
Jones Cemetery34.30816-89.26423
Keel Cemetery34.20594-89.5073
Kingdom Cemetery34.29038-89.41674
Lafayette Springs Cemetery34.31371-89.25507
Lammey Cemetery34.53899-89.66563
Langstons Cemetery34.53676-89.71619
Lebanon CemeteryNoneNone
Liberty Cemetery34.47649-89.3209
Liberty Hill Cemetery34.37649-89.2834
Martin Cemetery34.43038-89.46202
McGonigal Cemetery34.25121-89.42424
Midway Cemetery34.48343-89.38035
Midway Cemetery34.33149-89.37368
Mount Zion Cemetery34.37038-89.45368
New El Bethel Cemetery34.19455-89.36146
New Hope Cemetery34.50315-89.69452
North Oxford Cemetery34.39315-89.50813
Oak Grove Memorial Gardens34.39843-89.40841
Old Dallas Cemetery34.19927-89.3034
Owens Cemetery34.48482-89.4598
Paris Cemetery34.17594-89.44952
Pilgrim Rest Cemetery34.20121-89.54035
Pine Flat Cemetery34.24121-89.50424
Pine Grove Cemetery34.40649-89.35368
Pine Grove Cemetery34.42371-89.60397
Pleasant Green Cemetery34.21205-89.71869
Propst CemeteryNoneNone
Saint Johns Cemetery34.49038-89.58313
Saint Peter Cemetery34.49593-89.56035
Shiloh Cemetery34.47121-89.36368
Ship Cemetery34.23094-89.57563
Smith Cemetery34.49593-89.33451
South Oxford Cemetery34.33316-89.5198
Spring Hill Cemetery34.29982-89.25034
Springdale Cemetery34.21705-89.60675
Springdale Cemetery34.26955-89.31729
Springhill Cemetery34.19871-89.25812
Toby Tubby Cemetery34.4601-89.53869
Tula Cemetery34.22371-89.36174
Turpin CemeteryNoneNone
Waldrip Cemetery34.54787-89.66925
Webb Cemetery34.17982-89.37396
Wyatt Cemetery34.54843-89.57369
Yellow Leaf Cemetery34.30566-89.47063
Young Cemetery34.20844-89.52785

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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